Powered Ships, Boats, Liners, Tugs, Etc... Non-Sail

Montenegro
50th Anniversary of the Bar-Bari Ferry Connection
October 30, 2015
The stamp features Sveti Stefan, a ferry built in Denmark.

Bulgaria
Centenary of Bulgarian Merchant Fleet
October 30, 2992
The stamp features sea-ferry Helden of Sevastopol.

Norway
NORDEN - Coastal Shipping
April 20, 1998
3.80kr: Post and passenger steamer Hornelen (c. 1900)
4.50kr: Motorship Kommandoren in Sognefjord (1991)

Peru
Peruvian Industry
February 22, 1984
The stamp set depict cargo ships.

Switzerland
75 years of the Swiss Merchant Fleet
March 3, 2016
The stamp set depicts MS Lavaux, MS Lugano, MS Lausanne, and MS Stockhorn.

Here are images of the three regular stamps in a set depicting riverboats, designed by French artist Roger Chapelet, engraved by various French engravers, and issued by Central African Republic on December 10, 1968, Scott Nos. 110-112.

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Ville de Bangui (1958), engraved by Gilbert Aufschneider.


J.B. Gouandjia (1968), engraved by Pierre Forget.


Lamblin (1944), engraved by Michel Monvoisin.

In the summer of 1936, a super-battleship was laid in Hamburg,



which at the same time became a symbol of the heyday and decline of sea monsters, heavily armed, armored and huge battleships, who have taken the best achievements of modern science and industry.



The cost of these owners was comparable with the budgets of small states, and the caliber and displacement were regulated by numerous agreements, treaties and other important papers with ornate signatures and large state seals.

2.5 years, the workers of the Blom & Voss shipyard



created this miracle of shipbuilding and the shortsightedness of European politicians who overlooked the birth of German revenge, which turned all the achievements of the Versailles Peace Treaty into naive pieces of paper.



In 1939, the launched ship, received the name of Chancellor
Bismarck


and was transferred to the Gottenhaven naval base in the Baltic, near Danzig (Gdansk),

for further equipment and sea trials. From Hamburg, Bismarck had to go through a rather shallow Kiel Canal, which determined a flat-bottomed shape of the ship's hull and its relatively shallow draft.



On the base of the fleet in Gottenhaven, Bismarck was understaffed, tested and in 1940 entered the Kriegsmarine system. Throughout the year, German sailors mastered control of a huge battleship. Of particular difficulty is the 380 mm main artillery control system, capable to fire at distances of up to 35 km. For this, electro-mechanical computers were created that could quickly process data from from rangefinders, from acoustics, navigators, air temperature, wind direction. The life of the ship depended on the speed of data transmission, the accuracy of their receipt and processing. Any smallest mistake or delay in such calculations at long distances led to an inevitable miss. A distant descendant of these calculating machines are modern computers.

The battleship, accompanied by the cruiser "Prince Eugen",

set off on its only expedition under the name "Rhine Maneuvers" in early May 1940. The task of the raid into the North Atlantic was trivial privateering with the aim of cutting off the transport routes from America to England. The squadron left on May 20, and right there, in the Kattegat Strait, it was spotted from a Swedish warship, which the British immediately knew. Later, both ships were recognized at a berth in Bergen,



and British aircraft set about searching for a battleship.

At the first approach to the North Sea and entering the Danish Strait between Greenland and Iceland. On May 24, the Homeflot forces finally found the German ships and at 5-52 in the morning the English battleships "Hood" and "Prince of Wales" were the first to open fire.


Bismarck received several serious shots, but in the fifth salvo of the main caliber at the 8th minute of the battle he hit the powder magazine Hood, which he broke in half, and he immediately went to the bottom.


The Prince of Wales also got seven hits and he was forced to leave the battle. But the British fleet clung to the battleship like a hound of packs, the death of Royal Navi's pride in a fleeting battle required revenge.
Soon, detached from their pursuers, German ships were discovered from the aircraft of Catalina, sea scouts.
The aircraft carrier Ark Royal, who came up from Gibraltar,
attacked her own cruiser Sheffield, but fortunately not one of the torpedoes reached the target. And in the evening, according to aerial reconnaissance data, 15 torpedo bombers Suordfish attacked the battleship.
These plain low-speed biplanes, as it turned out, had one advantage: all of Bismarck's numerous anti-aircraft artillery was tuned to higher-speed aircraft.
This allowed the two Suorfishes to fire their torpedoes right on target and hit the steering.


All night Bismarck was chased by English destroyers with the dashing names "Cossack", "Sigh" and "Zulus" and transferred to the Polish fleet "Perun".


The rest was a matter of time. In the morning, on May 27, the battleships King George and Rodney broke the resistance of Bismark, who had no maneuver, for one hour, damaged all add-ons and gun turrets, and the cruisers of escort finished off the battleship with a torpedo attack.
Bismarck did not reach 690 miles to the base in French Saint-Nazaire, but "Prince Eugen" managed to break out and reach Brest.

The Bismarck sistership "Tirpitz"


was sunk in 1944 by British aircraft in a Norwegian fjord near the city of Tromso.


The Avro Lancaster bombers dropped several 5500-kilogram Tollboy bombs on it, and several missed charges left small craters with lakes on the shores.

This eliminated the threat that the British sailors so feared when escorting northern convoys to Russia.


In 2002, the camera crew of James Cameron descended to Bismarck from the board of the Russian scientific vessel "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh" on deep-sea vehicles "Mir".


Cameron made a documentary movie and it turned out that the ship's hull remained intact, and most likely the kingstones discovered by the team were the cause of the flooding of the battleship.
Thus ended the era of battleships that participated in many battles of World War II, but did not play a decisive role in it, despite the enormous costs of creating them. A light torpedo bomber or a submarine could easily incapacitate a marine giant, and after the 1940s no fleet built new battleships.




Just as knights in armor and their mighty weapons became a symbol of courage and military prowess,

armored battleships with their colossal guns remained a heroic symbol of naval battles of the 20th century.

The interest in their history is unchanged and they have become a favorite subject of modeling.


And in 2009 in Russia, the company Hashet Collection began selling partwork "The battleship t Bismarck". Why in Russia it was necessary to build the pride of the fascist Reich with a circulation of 200,000 copies was not clear, but it was to this battleship that I devoted 10 years of my leisure time and all my modest needlework skills.

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two participants in the battle with the battleship Bismarck: the battleship Rodney and the cruiser Cossack

Soviet Union 1966
Set of 2 stamps

Topic: Passenger sea line Leningrad-Montreal.
on the left stamp is the Soviet motor ship "Alexander Pushkin".

in the 60s, the Soviet Union ordered a series of ocean cruise liners in the GDR. Five ships left the slipways in Wismar. They got the names of famous poets.



The first ship was named after the Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko






The second ship of the project was the ship "Alexander Pushkin"




another ship received the name of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko




The fourth ship is named after the Georgian medieval poet Shota Rustaveli



The last ship is named after the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov




Luxurious 8-deck ships made cruises to all parts of the world in all oceans. For that time they were very comfortable ships. To date, only "Alexander Pushkin", bought by a Norwegian company and renamed in "Marco Polo", remains in service. "Mikhail Lermontov" sank in New Zealand because of a slow pilot, the rest having served their ship term were dismantled.

Alexey: this is Stamp Community Forum, not "Pradva", to drop your political lectures...

Norway May 20th 1944. Semipostal stamps. Charity for sailors victims of war-sunken ships.